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On Monday...

...Elton blogged about the energy potential of cottonseed. “All of the energy required to produce an acre of cotton can be found in a very unlikely place – the plant’s very own seeds. This is a powerful message for cotton’s sustainability…”

On Tuesday...

Elton profiled Branon Thiesse, Craighead County Extension staff chair, who “has come a long way since that late afternoon in 1991, when his routine life suddenly swerved out of control, leaving him with a heavy heart and a difficult challenge as a parent. What defined his life was not so much the tragedy, however, as what happened after.

On Wednesday...

...Elton wrote on the latest USDA commodity numbers. “USDA projected a significant decline in U.S. rice yields, lower production for corn and soybeans and bearish stock numbers for cotton in its Oct. 12 Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.”

Forrest filed his second report from the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa. In it, he wrote that “spending cuts approved by the U.S. House of Representatives threaten to increase the problems of famine in the Horn of Africa and the feeding of hungry people in the United States.”